New podcast episode. Jonathan Myron took SimplePractice engineering from 10 to 100 people while revenue went 10x, and attrition stayed low the whole way. We dig into how, and what a VP of Engineering does that a great senior engineer does not. Link below.
Founder @densitylabs. Host of The PreVetted Podcast (170+ episodes). Author of economic fables for kids and The Invisible Distance. Left Argentina in 2008.
- Every dead AI pilot I get called into has the same autopsy. The model was fine. Nobody owned the workflow, the data was not ready, the last mile had no budget. Nine failures in ten are organizational, not technical.
- A Readers' Favorite reviewer said No Silver on Rat Island "reads like The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe." It is a fable about inflation: a colony of rats prints a paper they call Hojas, and the real silver quietly disappears.
- I left Argentina in 2008 because of the economy. I wrote a fable to explain it to my son: rats print a paper money called Leaves, and the more they print, the more real silver quietly disappears. No Silver on Rat Island.
- ~95% of enterprise AI pilots never reach production. The gap is almost never the model. It's data readiness, integration risk, and who owns the thing after launch.

